Another Day With The City Council...

Tazer friend Mike Ali offers today's commentary on The Council's AM Sessions:

At today's Richmond City Council's morning session regarding the operations budget,(June 13, 2006) Council person Jim Rogers admitted that both the City Government of Richmond and the City Council had a 'DISCONNECT' to the people and community of Richmond.

And they are struggling even harder to admit they have a 'TOTAL DISCONNECTION' to the Violence Prevention Movement, the victims and their families; and the issues that are surrounding why our young people KILL other young people here in Richmond.

I swear to you that our Violence Prevention Movement Boycott has been highly successful city wide in Richmond! 'The Committee of Families for the Safety of Our Children' and other organizations has not given up NOR will we give up the Boycott until the City Government of Richmond, the Mayor's Office and certain members are prepared to admit they have NO plans, NO leadership, and NO vision of how to develop and implement policies to contain and reduce the violence and killing here in Richmond!

TAZER NOTE: Some have wondered "Why are you boycotting when we need solutions?" THIS IS EXACTLY WHY! THIS SEEMS TO BE THE BEST WAY TO GET HARD HEADED PEOPLE TO LISTEN...now back to the goodies...

At the morning session of today's City Council meeting, an Elder spoke of her frustation and anger at the Mayor and certain members for their FAILURE to address the real issues to why the violence and killing are happening here in town. The current Mayor's response was to shutdown and censure the Elder at the microphone. Not only did Mayor Anderson show a total disrespect for the Elder's concern, she did not even respond as an 'elected official' to the Elder's concerns of why the CITY OF RICHMOND IS LOSING THE WAR ON VIOLENCE!

TAZER NOTE: This may answer our question as to whether "Policital Thuggery" is alive and well for this election year eh? Good going Irma...hope you didn't need that vote...

Just the use of blantant abuse to silence your critics in the Council Chambers, shutdown an African-American Elder because she using her First Amendent Rights to address her concerns that the City of Richmond's failure to stop the violence and killing is JUST DAMN WRONG !

And Councilman Rogers in the same breath states that the City Government and the Council has a 'DISCONNECT' with the residents of our City. I wonder why! Man, some people are just plain STUPID! The Richmond Violence Prevention Movement Boycott continues on, our victory is not all that far away! The Richmond City Council, NO leadership, NO vision, NO plan! They are the biggest JOKE in town!

Yours in the Struggle For Human and Civil Rights in the City of Richmond

Micheal Ali